Annie Fischer: The Complete London Studio 	Recordings | Warner - Icon 2564634123

Annie Fischer: The Complete London Studio Recordings

Label: Warner - Icon

Cat No: 2564634123

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 8

Release Date: 7th April 2014

Contents

About

This set of Annie Fischer’s complete EMI recordings represent her during a particular decade, when she had made her European reputation. These recordings helped spread that reputation and increased her prominence among pianists.

As studio recordings, they form an unusual part of Fischer’s legacy – during most of her time as a performer, she avoided recording studios as she did not believe in playing in a studio without the presence of an audience. She shared this view with her eminent colleague Sviatoslav Richter, who said of her, ‘Annie Fischer is a great artist, imbued with a spirit of greatness and genuine profundity'.

However, from 1955 to 1966, she made a series of recordings for EMI. It began with Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto, the only work she recorded in 1955, and concluded with two of the six Mozart Piano Concertos. They were all made at Abbey Road Studios in London, with the exception of Schumann’s Kinderszenen and Kreisleriana, recorded in Vienna.

Contents:
CD 1

- Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 23
Philharmonia Orchestra / Adrian Boult

CD 2
- Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 21 & 22
Philharmonia Orchestra / Wolfgang Sawallisch

CD 3
- Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 24 & 27
New Philharmonia Orchestra / Efrem Kurtz

CD 4
- Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 8 'Pathétique', 14 'Moonlight', 18 & 24

CD 5
- Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 21 'Waldstein', 30 & 32

CD 6
- Schubert: Impromptus D935 Nos 2 & 4, Piano Sonata in B flat D960 / Schumann: Fantasy in C Op.17

CD 7
- Schumann: Carnaval, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana

CD 8
- Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No.1
Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer
- Bartók: Piano Concerto No.3
London Symphony Orchestra / Igor Markevitch

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